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Michelle Latimer returns DOC Institute award; “Inconvenient Indian” pulled from Sundance ’21 The NFB said it has withdrawn Michelle Latimer's doc from 'active distribution' after engaging with its Indigenous Advisory Group, industry partners, 90th Parallel Productions and producer Jesse Wente. December 23, 2020 UPDATED DEC. 23 1:45 P.M. ET: Filmmaker Michelle Latimer has returned her recently acquired Vanguard Award to Canadian o...

The National Film Board of Canada has withdrawn the Michelle Latimer–directed documentary from active distribution by Kevin Ritchie, Radheyan Simonpillai on December 22nd, 2020 at 7:00 PM 1 of 3 2 of 3 The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) has pulled Michelle Latimer’s documentary “After engaging with the Indigenous participants who appear on screen, the NFB’s Indigenous Advisory Group, and industry partners, the NFB, 90 th Parallel Productions and producer Jesse Wente have decided to withdraw Inconvenient Indian from active distribution,” the NFB said in a statement tod...

Posted: Dec 22, 2020 5:01 PM ET | Last Updated: December 22, 2020 Michelle Latimer's film Inconvenient Indian was to make its U.S. debut at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival early next year. (Submitted by Michelle Latimer) The National Film Board is withdrawing the Michelle Latimer-directed documentary  Inconvenient Indian from all film festivals and distribution after her Indigenous identity claims were called into question last week. The film is an adaptation of author Thomas King's best-selling book The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America. The fi...

Inconvenient Indian and showrunner, writer and director for the Viceland series Rise, is facing controversy following questions raised about her claims of Indigenous identity. On Thursday (Dec. 17), CBC News published a story reporting that during the summer questions had been raised over Latimer’s Indigenous identity, after her claims to be of Algonquin, Métis and French heritage, from Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg, were scrutinized by Kitigan Zibi members. Latimer issued her own statement on Thursday, saying: “I now realize that I made a mistake in naming Kitigan Zibi as my family’s com...